Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios and the long legislative battles over health care reform financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the government those rescued last or not at all were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey too.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature and it remains premature today.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

If you want a future of shared prosperity where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining where the American Dream is alive and well and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world you should vote for Barack Obama.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

When all else is lost the future still remains.